What All’s Possible with the Android Dual-SIM Smartphone — MediaTek MT6516
A dual-SIM smartphone manufactured in China runs Android 2.2.1 Froyo. Geeks always find noteworthy products based on Linux! Today, people are rarely surprised to see a dual-SIM phone. Phone manufacturers have been thinking…
How to Remaster Ubuntu to Get a Customised Distribution
In this article, we look at how to create a custom GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Customisability is a feature most people find amazing about Free Software. The software can be tweaked to…
The Quick Guide to QEMU Setup
In this series of articles, we will explore the basics of QEMU, OS installation, QEMU networking and embedded system development for the ARM architecture. In this first part, let’s begin with the basics….
Ease Your Ubuntu Experience
So you have made the leap, and are flying away from Windows… welcome to Ubuntu! You must have performed a few common activities like using the Ubuntu Software Centre, installing media codecs and…
Saving Private GRUB: Remotely Restoring MBR on an Enterprise Server
Corporate hardware systems differ from their conventional desktop counterparts primarily because they have a number of interesting features. For example, they provide an ability to connect a virtual CD-ROM drive, and use a…
Get Your Camcorder Working in Linux with Kino
When I purchased my Samsung Camcorder SC-D381, I thought it would work by default in Windows, but when I plugged the device into the IEEE 1394 port, to my surprise, Windows 7 did…
Make Your Own Stop-Motion Animation Using Stopmotion
This is one of those projects done during a lazy afternoon when creativity is bubbling up. In this article, I will introduce the core concept of animation, and how one would go about creating a short film, step by step, using free and open-source software
Accessing a Home Laptop Remotely from Android
Consider this: You’re on vacation in the Maldives, when your office calls, with an urgent request for some files and information. These happen to be on your laptop, which is at home! If…
Setting Up an External Laptop Display on Ubuntu
This article tells you how to set up a secondary (external) display connected to your laptop, using Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. You may have wondered if you could extend your laptop display to…
The Pocket Penguin: A Customised Linux-In-Your-Pocket!
You are spending a weekend at your cousin’s. Suddenly you feel like working on your Web project. You ask your cousin’s permission to use his computer. Unfortunately, you realise that the installed OS,…
June 18, 2013
aadhirai — I have tried the code in Part 11 which was working for me.
Here I am not getting the /dev/pen0...
June 15, 2013
Wesam Alalem — it would be better to use whitelist than blacklist, i.e:
$whitelist = array(".jpg", ".png", ".gif",);
and allow only these types
Thank you....
June 15, 2013
Ovidiu — None of these solutions work to recover a single file.
All of them are using the disk image..so you are going...
June 14, 2013
Marjan — There is an error in source! You should not allocate buffer globally. Microchip FSUSB demo board did not work by...
June 13, 2013
SID — I would like to add something here.
In latest Ubuntu and the kernel higher than v3 you will not find...
